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David W Ellis Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Recreation & Sports$139kHealth$51kReligion$44kEducation$27kArts & Culture$14kYouth Development$6kEnvironment$5kMembership Benefit$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
8
States reached
$553k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$10,000
MEMORY MATTERS$4,600
DEEP WELL$2,500
HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL$2,000
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$2,000
ST MARY'S COLLEGE$1,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$1,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING$1,000
HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION$1,000
SEA PINES FOREST PRESERVE FOUNDATIO$820
ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA$500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$400
COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM$250
HARBOR VIEW FUN RUN$213
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SECOND HELPINGS: $100 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$171k · 25 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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26

Total granted

$171k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
0%

Still filing today

36%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsReligionPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MM
    MEMORY MATTERS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +48%
  • AC
    ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +31%
  • HC
    HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • SO
    SIX OAKS CEMETERY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • CD
    COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT CORP
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
2
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
3
Tandem Health Sc

Tandem health sc is a comprehensive primary healthcare practice dedicated to building a healthy community and improving the health, well-being, and quality of life of each person served.

Health
4
Hampton Regional Medical Center

Hampton regional medical center's mission statement is to provide: compassion, commitment, and excellence. every person, every time.

Health
5
Mirasol Health Inc

Mirasol health is a nonprofit, community-focused healthcare organization dedicated to honoring life through compassionate care and support for individuals facing chronic conditions, end-of-life, or grief. proudly serving beaufort, jasper,…

6
Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region

Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.

Human Services
7
Mcleod Health

To operate a health care system providing medical excellence to the eastern region of south carolina and the extreme southeastern region of north carolina.

Health
8
Charleston Animal Society

Since its founding, our mission has always stayed the same: the prevention of cruelty to animals. in 1874, charleston animal society became the first animal organization in south carolina and one of the first in the nation and has never…

Animals
9
ContinueCare Hospital at Hendrick Medical Center Inc

It is the mission of continuecare hospital at hendrick medical center to deliver high quality healthcare emphasizing excellence and compassion consistent with the healing ministry of jesus christ.

Health
10
Mcleod Physician Associates Ii

Mcleod physician associates ii operates as a part of the mcleod health system. the mission of mcleod health is to improve the overall health and well being of people living within south carolina and eastern north carolina by providing…

Health
11
East Carolina Health

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
12
Herpes Cure Advocacy

Informed advocacy relating to the cure, treatment and prevention for herpes simplex virus types 1 + 2 infections.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Savannah Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is District of Columbia Fire Dept Emerald Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health CentersLand Conservation Organizat…Youth Development CentersCommunity Arts OrganizationsSenior Support ServicesCancer Support OrganizationsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionFood Pantries & AssistanceHospice Care ServicesDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%74%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,540

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
10/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DEEP WELL — $19,950 · OtherDEEP WELLHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH — $17,545 · OtherHOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCHST MARY'S COLLEGE — $13,000 · OtherST MARY'S COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL — $13,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOLNOTRE DAME CLUB OF HILTON HEAD — $12,595 · OtherNOTRE DAME CLUB OF HILTON HEADMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING — $9,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERINGTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC — $6,500 · OtherTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINICBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC — $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $4,500 · Other+35 more — $15,239 · Other+35 moreUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $115,500 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacMEMORY MATTERS — $27,000 · Human ServicesMEMORY MAT…+1 more — $100 · Human ServicesARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA — $11,500 · Arts & CultureSEA PINES FOREST PRESERVE FOUNDATION — $4,778 · Arts & CultureCOASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $2,850 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $100 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION — $9,500 · PhilanthropyST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $4,450 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $400 · HealthMERCY HOUSE ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE — $200 · Health+1 more — $100 · HealthHOPEFUL HORIZONS — $2,450 · Religion
Other$117,329Education$115,500Human Services$27,100Arts & Culture$19,228Philanthropy$9,500Health$5,650Religion$2,450

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $115,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORY MATTERS — $27,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA — $11,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION — $9,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC — $6,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSEA PINES FOREST PRESERVE FOUNDATION — $4,778 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $4,450 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $2,850 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEFUL HORIZONS — $2,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Charleston Parks Conservancy — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY HOUSE ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVICKSBURG-WARREN HUMANE SOCIETY — $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FIRE DEPT EMERALD SOCIETY — $100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac
  • Who funds MEMORY MATTERS
  • Who funds ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA
  • Who funds HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC
  • Who funds SEA PINES FOREST PRESERVE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM
  • Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC
  • Who funds The Charleston Parks Conservancy
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds MERCY HOUSE ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE
  • Who funds VICKSBURG-WARREN HUMANE SOCIETY

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Heritage Classic Foundation · The Bargain Box · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Breedlove Foundation Im 020120186528 · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Ekedahl Foundation · The Marshall Miller Foundation · The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation · The Gleason Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Michael & Louise Lynch Charitable Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization David W Ellis Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to David W Ellis Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to David W Ellis Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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